expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grab a person by his vulnerable spot; to curry favour with one's superior; to curry favor with one's superior

noun / ~する noun:

• leave-taking; offering one's resignation; farewell visit

expression / noun:

• everywhere; everywhere one goes; wherever one goes

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one - proverb

expression:

• desperately; to the full extent of one's power; with all of one's ability

expression / noun:

• wisdom of age; sagacity of one's years; old-man's wisdom

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dressing oneself up to look young; altering one's appearance to look young; dressing younger than one's age

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を守る

expression / adjective:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) - idiom
• having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear

noun:

• you are what you eat; slogan encouraging consumption of local seasonal foods for one's health; indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land) [literal]

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

expression:

• every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop [literal] - proverb ➜ 餠

lower nidan verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to give; to let one have; to do for one - archaism ➜ 呉れる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to devote oneself wholeheartedly to; to sacrifice one's health for; to risk one's life

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を破る

noun:

• passage in a discourse; one section; one scene

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered; to lose one's self-control

noun:

• communicativity; ability to convey one's opinion, message, etc.; power to make oneself understood

temporal noun:

• lifetime; one's whole life; all through life

noun:

• lungs; bottom of one's heart; vital point

expression / noun:

• each and all; every single one; everybody

expression:

• just this side of; one step short of; on the brink

expression:

• seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words - proverb